It might be worth taking a look through the answers to this thread http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_frm/thread/fadc0d3423ade6ea where I asked a similar question.
On Mar 16, 9:25 am, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > wanted the wisdom of the group to help me out. > > My current project is essentially a platform providing web services to > a number of clients. > > We've developed the web services by using Grails as it was considered > a very quick way to get things going. > > Grails has been a positive experience from a development point of view > but there are a number of disadvantages which are now prompting a > rethink: > > Grails' sweet spot is creating a web application (rather than web > services) to do CRUD. > > Our platform is not about typical CRUD. We do not have a html > front-end for example. Or a relational db. We use Mongodb. > > We are also concerned about the runtime performance of Grails as well > as how long it takes to startup in Jetty. > > So can anyone suggest an alternative? Performance and load are > important. Being able to expose web services easily from Java is also > important. > > I was thinking using Tomcat + Spring, mainly because its a stack I > know and Tomcat can handle a huge load and I can pick and choose the > bits of Spring I need. I would consider something lighter weight but I > really don't want to muck around with web.xml files and the usual > standard java web app crap (which Grails does a fantastic job of > abstracting away). > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks > > Rakesh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
